README
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Introduction
restic is a backup program that is fast, efficient and secure. It supports the three major operating systems (Linux, macOS, Windows) and a few smaller ones (FreeBSD, OpenBSD).
For detailed usage and installation instructions check out the documentation.
You can ask questions in our Discourse forum.
Quick start
Once you've installed restic, start off with creating a repository for your backups:
$ restic init --repo /tmp/backup
enter password for new backend:
enter password again:
created restic backend 085b3c76b9 at /tmp/backup
Please note that knowledge of your password is required to access the repository.
Losing your password means that your data is irrecoverably lost.
and add some data:
$ restic --repo /tmp/backup backup ~/work
enter password for repository:
scan [/home/user/work]
scanned 764 directories, 1816 files in 0:00
[0:29] 100.00% 54.732 MiB/s 1.582 GiB / 1.582 GiB 2580 / 2580 items 0 errors ETA 0:00
duration: 0:29, 54.47MiB/s
snapshot 40dc1520 saved
Next you can either use restic restore to restore files or use restic mount to mount the repository via fuse and browse the files from previous
snapshots.
For more options check out the online documentation.
Backends
Saving a backup on the same machine is nice but not a real backup strategy. Therefore, restic supports the following backends for storing backups natively:
- Local directory
- sftp server (via SSH)
- HTTP REST server (protocol, rest-server)
- Amazon S3 (either from Amazon or using the Minio server)
- OpenStack Swift
- BackBlaze B2
- Microsoft Azure Blob Storage
- Google Cloud Storage
- And many other services via the rclone Backend
Design Principles
Restic is a program that does backups right and was designed with the following principles in mind:
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Easy: Doing backups should be a frictionless process, otherwise you might be tempted to skip it. Restic should be easy to configure and use, so that, in the event of a data loss, you can just restore it. Likewise, restoring data should not be complicated.
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Fast: Backing up your data with restic should only be limited by your network or hard disk bandwidth so that you can backup your files every day. Nobody does backups if it takes too much time. Restoring backups should only transfer data that is needed for the files that are to be restored, so that this process is also fast.
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Verifiable: Much more important than backup is restore, so restic enables you to easily verify that all data can be restored.
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Secure: Restic uses cryptography to guarantee confidentiality and integrity of your data. The location the backup data is stored is assumed not to be a trusted environment (e.g. a shared space where others like system administrators are able to access your backups). Restic is built to secure your data against such attackers.
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Efficient: With the growth of data, additional snapshots should only take the storage of the actual increment. Even more, duplicate data should be de-duplicated before it is actually written to the storage back end to save precious backup space.
Reproducible Builds
The binaries released with each restic version starting at 0.6.1 are reproducible, which means that you can reproduce a byte identical version from the source code for that release. Instructions on how to do that are contained in the builder repository.
News
You can follow the restic project on Mastodon @resticbackup or by subscribing to the project blog.
License
Restic is licensed under BSD 2-Clause License. You can find the
complete text in LICENSE.
Sponsorship
Backend integration tests for Google Cloud Storage and Microsoft Azure Blob Storage are sponsored by AppsCode!
Documentation
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Overview ¶
Package restic gives a (very brief) introduction to the structure of source code.
Overview ¶
The packages are structured so that cmd/ contains the main package for the restic binary, and internal/ contains almost all code in library form. We've chosen to use the internal/ path so that the packages cannot be imported by other programs. This was done on purpose, at the moment restic is a command-line program and not a library. This may be revisited at a later point in time.
Source Files
Directories
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cmd
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restic
This package contains the code for the restic executable.
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This package contains the code for the restic executable. |
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helpers
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internal
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archiver
Package archiver contains the code which reads files, splits them into chunks and saves the data to the repository.
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Package archiver contains the code which reads files, splits them into chunks and saves the data to the repository. |
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backend
Package backend provides local and remote storage for restic repositories.
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Package backend provides local and remote storage for restic repositories. |
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backend/gs
Package gs provides a restic backend for Google Cloud Storage.
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Package gs provides a restic backend for Google Cloud Storage. |
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backend/local
Package local implements repository storage in a local directory.
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Package local implements repository storage in a local directory. |
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backend/location
Package location implements parsing the restic repository location from a string.
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Package location implements parsing the restic repository location from a string. |
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backend/sema
Package sema implements semaphores.
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Package sema implements semaphores. |
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backend/sftp
Package sftp implements repository storage in a directory on a remote server via the sftp protocol.
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Package sftp implements repository storage in a directory on a remote server via the sftp protocol. |
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backend/test
Package test contains a test suite with benchmarks for restic backends.
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Package test contains a test suite with benchmarks for restic backends. |
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crypto
Package crypto provides all cryptographic operations needed in restic.
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Package crypto provides all cryptographic operations needed in restic. |
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debug
Package debug provides an infrastructure for logging debug information and breakpoints.
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Package debug provides an infrastructure for logging debug information and breakpoints. |
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errors
Package errors provides custom error types used within restic.
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Package errors provides custom error types used within restic. |
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filter
Package filter implements filters for files similar to filepath.Glob, but in contrast to filepath.Glob a pattern may specify directories.
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Package filter implements filters for files similar to filepath.Glob, but in contrast to filepath.Glob a pattern may specify directories. |
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fs
Package fs implements an OS independent abstraction of a file system suitable for backup purposes.
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Package fs implements an OS independent abstraction of a file system suitable for backup purposes. |
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migrations
Package migrations contains migrations that can be applied to a repository and/or backend.
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Package migrations contains migrations that can be applied to a repository and/or backend. |
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pack
Package pack provides functions for combining and parsing pack files.
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Package pack provides functions for combining and parsing pack files. |
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repository
Package repository implements a restic repository on top of a backend.
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Package repository implements a restic repository on top of a backend. |
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restic
Package restic is the top level package for the restic backup program, please see https://github.com/restic/restic for more information.
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Package restic is the top level package for the restic backup program, please see https://github.com/restic/restic for more information. |
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restorer
Package restorer contains code to restore data from a repository.
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Package restorer contains code to restore data from a repository. |
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test
Package test provides helper functions for writing tests for restic.
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Package test provides helper functions for writing tests for restic. |
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textfile
Package textfile allows reading files that contain text.
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Package textfile allows reading files that contain text. |